 Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. |
| We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument. |
| You know, it's a long world. |
| I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. |
| The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly. |
| When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. |
| I just had an idea that went right over my head. |
| I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. |
| If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes. |
| By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. |
| Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well. |
| There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them. |
| If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. |
| If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us. |
| One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. |
| I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places. |
| This is the best biography by me I have ever read. |
| Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life. |
| I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. |
| Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. |
